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I know this is a sarcastic post by OP. A few years or even months ago I probably would've probably closed this thread because of no constructive criticism. However, the situation is extremely depressing. Paragon power creep (not related to botting, to make this absolutely clear) in combination with rampant botting for various purposes is omnipresent in many top clans and makes it almost impossible to achieve high leaderboard rankings for "legitimate players".

Many people, including me, created various posts on the official forums or tried to get Blizzard to act in many ways. While in season one and two those issues might have been present, they were not dominating the leaderboards at all. This season botting might not be the main issue yet, though various forms of cheating are part of the competition (highlighted by the fact that almost all streamers have gone offline recently, yet the rankings explode with mid/high 70s clears). Getting on the 4 player top 100 leaderboards was something we achieved regularly in the first few eras, this era you need a one in a million rift, in era 4 this might extend to the top 500 or the even the entire top 1000 of the leaderboards. Yeah, of course, that only affects 1000 people which means it's a ridiculously small percentage of the D3 population.

And that's kind of the problem: Those threads are getting downvoted to oblivion, the issues are being neglected as if they don't affect anyone (of the majority) in the long run. I think they will (similar to the negative impact of the AH on everyone in D3V). Either way, we already saw quite a few victims of this (many people quit the game, Jaetch is a prominent example of someone who at least quit the MVP program and all mod duties, not sure if he'll continue to play as "casual", and I could name many many famous streamers). If this doesn't change, the once thriving and highly motivating competitive scene in D3 will be dead. No reason left for me to play anymore.